Oregon reached the title game by defeating 2013 BCS champion Florida State 59-20 in the Rose Bowl. Ohio State knocked off top-seeded Alabama 42-35 in the Sugar Bowl. MORE: Key stats | Viewer’s guide | Urban did what? | Oregon attitude More on the game: Records: Oregon (13-1), Ohio State (13-1) Coaches: Mark Helfrich (Oregon), Urban Meyer (Ohio State) Where: Arlington, Texas Stadium: AT&T Stadium Capacity: 80,000, but expands to 105,000 with standing room attendance...

The arguments between fan bases contending for those four spots are already flaring up, and there are some preemptive questions loaded for the selection committee — and they aren’t about the future 12-team playoff. The remaining six unbeaten teams in the FBS — Georgia, Ohio State, Tennessee, Michigan, Clemson and TCU — have the best playoff right now. Unlike the preseason polls, these first rankings matter a little more. A total of 18 of the 32 playoff participants opened in the top four of the initial rankings since 2014....

On Monday, the former Badgers coach told ESPN it would be “very difficult” to leave an undefeated Power 5 conference champion out of the College Football Playoff. Call it a calculated preemptive strike before Wisconsin (9-0) was listed at No. 8 in the second set of College Football Playoff rankings Tuesday. Alvarez is right, of course, but those rankings are doing their best to prove him wrong. They’re not a big deal yet, even if the Badgers should be ranked ahead of No....

A year ago, the Aggies defeated the Tigers 74-72 in College Station, Texas, after seven overtime periods and almost five hours of football. LSU should have won the game in regulation and felt Texas A&M repeatedly got the rub of the green with marginal calls going the Aggies’ way. Controversy didn’t end with the final whistle, with a major scuffle breaking out between LSU director Kevin Faulk and Texas A&M staffer Cole Fisher—the nephew of Aggies’ coach Jimbo Fisher....

Several teams ranked in the Coaches Poll and AP Top 25 found themselves on the wrong ends of upsets on Saturday, including undefeated College Football Playoff hopefuls Notre Dame, Utah and Michigan. SN RANKINGS: Massive changes among top-25 teams That sets up another interesting week of college football, as the polls and Playoff picture only become more convoluted from here. Here are the full college football rankings from the AP Top 25 and Coaches Poll after Week 4:...

That starts first and foremost with Alabama, who still ranks No. 1 after Tua Tagovailoa suffered a high-ankle sprain in the Tide’s win against Tennessee on Saturday. On the other end of the spectrum, Wisconsin dropped out of the top 10 after a stunning loss to Illinois. That meeting with Ohio State on Saturday will no longer be a top-10 meeting. SN RANKINGS: How does Tagovailoa injury affect top 25?...

The MAC is a very balanced conference with nine of the 12 teams sitting between 5-3 and 3-5 right now, so it is not a shock that bettors are having trouble figuring out the league. If you are on the hunt for an upset, which, of course, is our raison d’etre here at the Underdog Challenge, the MAC seems to be a great place to start. Our rules of the Challenge: Our experts pick underdogs to win each week....

This week will be dominated by the conference championships, as No. 1 Clemson takes on No. 8 North Carolina for the ACC, No. 2 Alabama takes on No. 18 Florida in the SEC, No. 4 Iowa takes on No. 5 Michigan State in the Big Ten and No. 7 Stanford takes on No. 24 USC for the Pac-12. MORE: 2015’s most disappointing teams | TOP 25: AP | Coaches...

That said, nothing’s certain after two undefeated teams went down to unranked opponents last week. MORE: SN Week 9 Top 20 | New SN Top 50 Player Rankings (All times Eastern) Thursday, Oct. 29 North Carolina at No. 23 Pittsburgh, 7 p.m., ESPN West Virginia at No. 5 TCU, 7:30 p.m., FOX Sports 1 Western Michigan at eastern Michigan, 7:30 p.m. Buffalo at Miami (OH), 7:30 p.m., ESPN3 Texas State at Georgia Southern, 7:30 p....

It was Washington's first win over a ranked team since Isaiah Thomas' jumper beat then-No. 16 Arizona in the 2011 Pac-10 Conference tournament championship game. Washington (11-6, 3-1 Pac-12) had lost 12 straight against ranked teams. MORE: Box score/stats | Full scoreboard | Stanford-Oregon | Arizona-Southern Cal Colorado (14-3, 3-1) never recovered after leading scorer Spencer Dinwiddie crumbled to the court late in the first half after his left knee buckled while dribbling on a fast break....

Small is part of a rapidly growing campus trend. At his school, 1,425 students have signed pledges this year to abstain from alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs in their dorm rooms; more than 300 others were turned down for lack of space. At Michigan State, 1,600 students have chosen substance-free habitats this year. At Holy Cross College in Worcester, Mass., some 180 students live on substance-free corridors in Loyola Hall, and 30 more are on waiting lists....

The Cavaliers' win came as Nathan Kirby and Artie Lewicki combined for the first one-hitter at the CWS in 31 years. MORE: Photo gallery The Rebels elected to pitch to Virginia's top hitter and RBI leader even though first base was unoccupied. Aaron Greenwood (3-2) ran the count full before Papi drilled the ball into the gap, allowing Nate Irving to score from second. Virginia (50-14) plays TCU in a winners game on Tuesday night....

Colobomas may involve one or several structures of the eye, including: Iris: The iris is a round, disk-shaped muscle with a hole in the middle where the pupil is located. It is the colored part of the eye responsible for allowing the right amount of light to reach the retina. The iris controls the light that enters the retina by changing the size and diameter of the pupil. Coloboma of the iris does not usually cause visual impairment, but it may result in sensitivity to light....

To address these problems, a team from the Manipal Institute of Technology in India is creating tampons and pads that can detect Candida albicans—a fungus that commonly causes vaginal yeast infections. The researchers published their findings in the journal ACS Omega earlier this month. “I was astonished after hearing that women in rural communities still consider revealing yeast infections to family members, even to physicians, as a taboo,” lead study author Naresh Kumar Mani, PhD, assistant professor of biotechnology at the Manipal Institute of Technology, tells Verywell....

The Aurora Police Department (APD) recently placed Officer Doug Wilkinson, head of the Aurora Police Association (APA), on administrative leave after he sent an email blasting the recent diversity-focused police reforms last week. The APD had entered into an agreement with Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, a Democrat, to commit to the reforms shortly before Wilknson’s email was sent to hundreds of APA members. The reform agreement came after a Weiser investigation uncovered issues of racially discriminatory policing and excessive use of force following the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who died after being placed into a chokehold by police and injected with ketamine by paramedics....